User blog comment:KanameTousen/Admin Rights in other Wiki/@comment-1164563-20120808161315

Other Wikis? You mean others on our wiki farm (Wikia) or wikis in general?

You see, MediaWiki is just an engine. As in "software that converts shortcuts like this, this, ==this== etc. into actual HTML text. It doesn't define how a site should be administrated. It you make a site with MediaWiki, you can make it so, for example, only registered users can edit it, and it still will be considered a wiki.

As for the Wikia farm, I understand it that all wikis here have several levels of rights: anons, newly-registered users, users with rollback rights, administrators, bureaucrats, and staff. (Oh, and bots, but this is reserved for robots.) And yes, the protect, delete and block rights are available only to admins and up. You can explore it in more detail on Special:ListGroupRights if you want.

By the way, it seems like the same applies to Wikipedia (which is not affiliated to Wikia in any way, they are a separate system), but I'm not 100% sure since I never really wrote there.

As for our wiki specifically, admins and up can grant sysop powers to anyone they want. (Although if an admin grants admin rights, they can't remove it later. Only if the person itself will remove them from themselves or someone with even higher level rights, like bc, does it.) It doesn't have to be the founder of the wiki... In fact, the real founder, User:The One Sin, I've never seen. It seems he created the wiki, edited here for a bit, and then went to greener pastures.